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Limiting Typesense Search Results to Non-Empty Queries

TLDR A asked how to limit Typesense search results to non-empty queries. Jason provided an example using Instantsearch.js, referencing Typesense's song search project on GitHub.

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A

10:59 AM

Q: By default, a Typesense search page seems to render all hits for an empty query. I want to see only search hits if there is really a query entered into the search form.

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Jason

02:59 PM

A Here's an example of how to do this with Instantsearch.js: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-songs-search/blob/9b2d91ab5e3a16480b93de5ae103bf9969f58ac5/src/app.js#L159-L166

You'll see this in action here: https://songs-search.typesense.org/

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